To the idiot that claimed part one Neji is much faster than Sakura, do realize his speed was portrayed to be vastly inferior to Kurenai (
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Furthermore, the manga implied that special jounins like Genma and Raido were on a whole other level compared to members of the sound four individually (
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and instead relied on using his palms to repel the webs or he used his Byakugan to get a preemptive view which ordinary shinobi like Genma and Raidou have no luxury doing.
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whereas ordinary jounin with a much larger blind spot obviously won't get hit by the webs or else Kishi wouldn't have put them on a higher level if they would get defeated so easily. In other words, Neji's speed feats in part one aren't as great as some people think.
He couldn't even dodge arrows from over 50 m away every single time Kidomaru used them (
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). Despite Neji trying to protect his blind spot by moving his head around which should be easy, he clearly wasn't fast considering
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to hit that small area which implies a guy much slower than the likes of Genma and Raidou managed to get behind Neji through guided arrows. People will use the excuse that Neji was weakened so he wasn't fast anymore yet he was so fast that he
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who was over 50 m away from him
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but while Kidomaru was still in midair.
Of course current Neji is much faster than part one Neji but even he doesn't have that many speed feats. For example, despite him having Byakugan which can anticipate what the opponent will do next by
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, he
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. Not to mention during the very beginning of the war arc, Neji
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despite the fact he has the vision to see behind him and the fact Zetsu clones aren't small enough to fit in Neji's blindspot. On the other hand, Sakura when surrounded by multiple puppets managed to evade them with ease (
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Don't get me wrong though, Neji does have a nice speed feat in shippuuden that is often overlooked (
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so he didn't cover that great of a distance but the significance of this speed feat is that he managed to get in the way of
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. Regardless, Sakura has a similar speed feat when she intercepted Sasori's blade who was right in front of Chiyo (
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but then
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Now I'm not trying to say EP2 Sakura is faster than Neji when the databook as well as manga portrayal puts Neji's speed to be above EP2 Sakura considering
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who has a 4.5 in speed much like Neji and
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However, once Sakura got the Yin seal, her speed increased exponentially and now she is faster than War Arc Neji. She managed to
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which are said to be very fast by none other than Rikudo Naruto. Sure this is proof that Sakura is nowhere near as fast as the likes of Kaguya, Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi but that matters not as these guys have god level speed. It's still a high level speed feat as Sakura could visually, mentally and physically react, just wasn't fast enough to outrun it.
Not to mention
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while
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to escape Naruto and Sasuke and
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as she managed to evade Sasuke's spacetime when she was
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. Yes Sakura was above Kaguya but Sakura had to leap forward as Kaguya wasn't directly beneath Sakura but was also in front of Sakura as well as below her considering the fact that Sakura was on top of Kakashi's susanoo
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. All of this would require her to visually keep up with Kaguya which means she is much faster than she was in the beginning of Shippuden where she couldn't keep track of early part two Sasuke's shunshin. Not only that, but getting the timing to punch something coming extremely fast would require a much higher level of reflexes than Neji or EP2 Sakura has displayed. Not only that, but Sakura managed to time her leap properly before Kaguya bypassed susanoo completely. For someone as fast as Kaguya, she would take a very small amount of time to move all the way above Sakura's position but Sakura managed to send her back downwards in this small time frame.
As for gentle fist, this is how it works:
The gentle fist user has the ability to block the tenketsu of the victim by inserting their chakra into the tenketsu (
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). To do that though, the gentle fist user must be able to put in enough chakra to overpower the preexisting chakra within the tenketsu but scan 4 shows it has to be done accurately. Sakura is faster than Neji and has been trained in evasion so Neji won't be able to seal away her chakra points effectively. Furthermore while he can stop her chakra network, the chakra within the seal won't be blocked by a small amount of Neji's chakra considering the Yin Seal stores a much more massive amount of chakra and no Hyuuga has shown the feats to block a chakra point with
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stored into it. Furthermore if Byakugou is active, the Yin seal will automatically force chakra to flow around Sakura's body thus that chakra will eventually overpower the chakra that Neji used to seal away Sakura's chakra points much like what
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and a small amount of Kyuubi chakra.
All in all what I'm trying to say is that as long as the Yin seal isn't blocked, the Yin seal will be forcing chakra to the rest of Sakura's chakra network and if it isn't enough, the chakra pressure will keep on building up until the chakra that is used to block Sakura's chakra network can no longer contain the Yin seal's chakra.
So Sakura wins mid difficulty without Katsuyu and low difficulty with Katsuyu.